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The
Stalk Rot of Corn
Professional
Seed Research, Inc. announces a new series of CD and printed
material on Corn Disease Concepts. Each of the 6 volumes will be
presented in a form and language for non-technical and technical
readers. Discussions will integrate research information with 30
years of personal experience with diseases of corn, varying corn
genetics and a broad range of environments.
Volume 1, Stalk Rot of Corn, is especially appropriate because of
the widespread occurrence this season. The presentation discusses
the basic causes of stalk rot, how to evaluate fields and hybrids
when the problem occurs, and solutions. Experimental evidence of
the relationship among yield potential, stresses and stalk rot are
presented. Guidance is given for analysis of causes of stalk rot,
essential to making good decisions on hybrids and cultural
conditions for the next season.
The Stalk Rot of Corn volume includes 20 color photographs and
numerous tables and charts.
An example is available on the PSR, Inc. home page: http://www.psrcorn.com
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All volumes are copyrighted by Professional Seed Research, Inc.
Contact Professional Seed Research, Inc. by telephone
(630-466-1060) or email psr@psrcorn.com
for more information.
Professional Seed Research, Inc. (PSR, Inc.) is a family owned
company started in 1987. PSR, Inc. offers seed quality and purity
testing, disease resistance evaluations, and special corn breeding
services to the seed industry. PSR, Inc.¹s proprietary Seedling
Morphology Fingerprinting methods allow more accurate and less
expensive applications to purity testing and backcrossing of corn.
More details of services can be
found at http://www.psrcorn.com
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RAPID INBREEDING® Seedling growout® technology by PSR, Inc. can allow rapidly obtaining
near homozygosity inbred from hybrid F2 seed, broad based populations or narrow
based populations. PSR, Inc.¹s knowledge of basic heterotic groups also allows selection
for genetic families. Seedling screening permits searching through a large number of
plants for those with distinctive genetic family characteristics and other indicators of
homozygosity. Selected S1
seed derived from narrow based populations by Rapid Inbreeding® are homozygous enough for
making test crosses. PSR, Inc. offers three options to apply this system to commercial
breeding programs.
Option 1
PSR, Inc. selects and selfs near inbred plants from your population on a fee basis.
You send the population to PSR, Inc by December and PSR, Inc. returns the selected S1 seed
in early April for summer production of hybrids.
Option 2
PSR, Inc. Selects and returns near inbred lines from a companies population for 25%
of commercial royalties derived from a successful inbred among the selections. This
assumes that the company will make and test appropriate hybrid crosses and aggressively
promote any good inbreds. Progress is monitored with sharing yield trial results with PSR,
Inc.
Option 3
PSR, Inc. selects near inbred lines from populations created by PSR, Inc. The
cooperating company makes test crosses and conducts tests and licenses any successful
inbreds sharing 50% of royalty income with PSR, Inc. Progress is monitored by sharing
yield trial results with PSR, Inc.
Each of the options can be varied. For example, a company can decide to transplant the
seedling selections in Hawaii, selfing the selection and making test cross hybrids at the
same time. This allows having hybrid test results 1 year after producing the population.
Give us a call to search how the Rapid Inbreeding® program could be useful in your
research.
For more information, please contact
Professional Seed
Research, Inc.
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